{"id":617,"date":"2012-02-22T06:27:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T06:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/aliteraryspirit\/?p=617"},"modified":"2012-02-21T20:33:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T20:33:36","slug":"childrens-book-week-wilfred-gorden-mcdonald-patridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/aliteraryspirit\/2012\/02\/childrens-book-week-wilfred-gorden-mcdonald-patridge.html","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s Book Week: Wilfred Gorden McDonald Patridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/301\/2012\/02\/0-916291-04-9.d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-618\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/301\/2012\/02\/0-916291-04-9.d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge<\/span><br \/>\nAuthor:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kanemiller.com\/biography.asp?sku=37&amp;author=Fox%2C+Mem\">Fox, Mem<\/a><br \/>\nIllustrator:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kanemiller.com\/biography.asp?sku=146&amp;illustrator=Vivas%2C+Julie\">Vivas, Julie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mem Fox is one of the most prolific children&#8217;s authors in contemporary times.\u00a0 Her classic Time for Bed and Where is the Green Sheep? have delighted millions of children and parents.\u00a0 With this book, Mem Fox tackles the difficult issue of aging, and the meaning of memory.<\/p>\n<p>With grace, she explores how the word &#8220;memory&#8221; means to many different elderly people&#8211;and how a child interprets the world of a grandparent.\u00a0 I recommend this book for children 3+ who are old enough to explore the concepts of age, aging and nostalgia with a parent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge Author:\u00a0Fox, Mem Illustrator:\u00a0Vivas, Julie Mem Fox is one of the most prolific children&#8217;s authors in contemporary times.\u00a0 Her classic Time for Bed and Where is the Green Sheep? have delighted millions of children and parents.\u00a0 With this book, Mem Fox tackles the difficult issue of aging, and the meaning of memory.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-spirituality","category-general-spirituality"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Children&#039;s Book Week: Wilfred Gorden McDonald Patridge - A Literary Spirit<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/aliteraryspirit\/2012\/02\/childrens-book-week-wilfred-gorden-mcdonald-patridge.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Children&#039;s Book Week: Wilfred Gorden McDonald Patridge - A Literary Spirit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge Author:\u00a0Fox, Mem Illustrator:\u00a0Vivas, Julie Mem Fox is one of the most prolific children&#8217;s authors in contemporary times.\u00a0 Her classic Time for Bed and Where is the Green Sheep? 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